Tag: MLwork

8.9.10

that’s today’s date – how cool.

Today has been CRAZY busy at work, but it’s time to leave and go to the GYM. The first real work out after vacation is always hard, but I’m ready.

I got in the scale this morning and I was 194.4 – better than I feared. I still have hopes to see the 180s by NEXT (not this) Wednesday.

I have some dress and sneaker posts for you as well, but I’m gonna wait until I take pics. I’m hoping to try and backtrack and read a week worths of dashboard posts tonight – we’ll see how that goes, I hope it’s INSPIRING!

Non Scale Victory

This journey is so much more than just about my body, it’s about my soul. This weekend we concluded summer orientation and had an end of the year banquet for our orientation leaders. They organized little books they wrote notes in – what beautiful things they wrote and saw in me.

Below are some quotes from my college students:

  • You certainly add some spice and excitement to the office.
  • Your individuality has made me see it’s okay to be different and love it.
  • You are so unique and encourage the freshmen to embrace who they are and be proud of it.
  • I think I want to label you the rebel from FYE! You do your own thing and I feel that is very admirable.
  • I love your New York accent. Every time you give a speech I am a lot more inclined to listen just because of it.
  • I admire your uniqueness so much. I love that every day I could look over and see a spunky, new, exciting touch.
  • You may be from Long Island (pronounced Lawoohng Ayeland), but you’ve got the congeniality and wisdom of anyone born “Southern by the Grace of God.”
  • Some people don’t get you…but for some reason I do! Your uniqueness is refreshing and needed.
  • Thanks for showing us what that NewYork swag is all about.
  • I’ve truly enjoyed your spunky, hilarious ways all throughout the spring and summer.
  • I love your blunt honesty, even if it’s hard to hear sometimes.
  • I absolutely love you! I think you are hilarious even though you are sometimes mean.
  • I can’t tell you how much I appreciate the diversity you bring to the program because it adds so much.
  • I love your sense of humor because it always lightens the mood.
  • I love the way that you embrace your individuality. It has definitely inspired me to be more confident with my uniqueness.
  • You always brought spunk to staff which was much needed. I will always remember your shoe strings, earrings, and hair colors and how you always walked around with style. Keep running and working on those killer legs.

I sometimes forget I’m a New Yorker in Alabama because I love the people around me so much. This year I’ve really fully embraced who I am from my hair to jewelry to clothing and it’s great that small things like that are impacting my students. It’s reassuring that people LOVE the me that I LOVE!

Also a few other people alluded to my running and races and how it motivated or inspired them. It was so thoughtful for my head orientation staff to buy me a Dick’s gift card so I can buy more running clothes. I really don’t have words to express the love I have for my students and staff.

This was the dress I wore to last night’s banquet…I felt like a million bucks. I’m also pretty excited about tonight’s dress. 

PS – at last night’s banquet my students got me a $50 gift card to Dick’s Sporting Goods to help fund my running habit! Many of them mentioned my running/racing and how inspired they were. I have more to post about my student perhaps tomorrow, but my heart is too full at the moment and I miss them all already.

Ooopsies

It’s not really an oops moment I suppose when you KNOW what you are doing. With today wrapping up our last of 8 orientation sessions I indulged a tiny bit with some of the foods and treats that I limited this summer. I also have two banquets this weekend that are known to have fantastic desserts. I will make the best decisions I can, but I also deserve to celebrate as well.

I’m most excited about my banquet dresses for this weekend, they are waaaay cute. One I haven’t worn in a year so I’ll be curious to see how much better it looks on me now! Don’t worry I’ll post pics…

Say Cheese

Hey Tumblrs and Tumblettes…miss me? Well even though it’s been like 30 hours since I got on I missed YOU.

We are wrapping up our final session of orientation here and to honor it I got up this morning to do the 6:30am parent running tour of campus that I did a month ago. I’m happy to report the run went much better this go ‘round and I actually had a bunch of moms with me at my pace that I got to point buildings out to. Solid run.

I set my alarm this morning for 5:55am (despite getting home from work at 1am) and actually woke up at 5:25am (thanks to my dog). So prior to heading to campus I made some overnight oats, changed my sheets, laid out all my clothes for the day and TOOK PICTURES OF MYSELF IN MY SPORTS BRA AND SPANDEX SHORTS. Like I’ve mentioned in a previous post I was too “scared” to take “before pictures” but regardless I’m glad I’m recording myself at this weight and to see my progress from here. I don’t want to share these pics just yet…but in time.

I took them on my cell phone and I’ve been like terrified all day that I’m gonna accidentally send them to someone or someone is going to look at my phone and see them. So after I finish this post I’m emailing them to myself and then deleting any trace of them off my phone.

WIW Extraordinaire

Last week: 198.2

This week 193.7

Change: -4.5

HOT DAMN. I’m so excited I didn’t cheat and get on the scale yesterday because this morning was SO exciting. YES like 2 pounds of that weight was weight I had already lost and then gained back 4th of July, but to lose another 2.5 pounds on top of that is just MAGICAL.

Also I wanted to mention that working new student orientation the past 10 weeks and managing to LOSE about 10 pounds has been amazing, because it’s a running joke that everyone gains 10 pounds during orientaiton due to lots of tempting food at our fingertips and also having to grab and go a lot of the time. I’ve fallen victim the past few summers, so it’s AMAZING that I lost 10 pounds this summer and with orientation wrapping up this week I can’t wait to see how well I do in the coming months!

My goal of being in the 180s by my birthday (August 4th) is so close I can TASTE it and that is the sweetest treat of them all!

Total Loss: 28.9

Left to Lose: 25.7 (GW) /38.7 (UGW)

What did you do before 7am?

I ran 5 miles in 57 minutes!

That is miraculous because I went to bed at 1am after working a 12 hour day and woke up at 6am. Now I am working an 18 hour orientation day. I am so glad I did this run, I was stressed because I didn’t do it yesterday so I switched rest and 5mi days so I am on track.

I’m very appreciative that my boss let me come in 45 minutes late so I could get my run in. He knows how hard I’ve been working along with the rest of my coworkers. It’s all very encouraging. Another colleague across campus saw on facebook that I ran a 10K and he called me a “serious runner.” I never thought of myself that way, but I am taking my running very seriously.

AM Run

I’m in the midst of working our 7th of 8 freshmen orientation sessions which are all consuming. This morning I planned on running before I had to go to work, but at 8am it was like heat-stroke hot. I thought about trying to go to the gym to run, but it’s 15 minutes across town and I didn’t think I’d have enough time to run the 5 miles I need to run. So I decided I am going to wake up insanely early tomorrow and run the 5 miles before work. So that means I’ll have a 14 hour work day today ending around midnight, wake up at 5:30am to run and then work all day until about midnight again tomorrow. It’s ugly, but I gotta do what I gotta do. Now I’m debating running at the gym, or run my usual outdoor route, or run the morning parent run with an extra 2 miles thrown to make 5 miles. Wish me luck and let’s hope I don’t exhaust myself to tears tomorrow.

Second Job

So money has been really tight lately for reasons I cannot even understand, but I have made many adjustments to my life to free up money. Regardless I was talking to my sister about it and she asked if I thought about getting a second job. I have a freaking master degree and work at a damn college and I need a second job talk about enraging, but I actually have thought about it. 

HOWEVER. 

I really treat my running and weight loss as my second job. I don’t want to do anything that wold take time from this. For me being fit and healthy is more important that money.

I’m actually job searching at the moment with plans/hopes to move back to northeast. Either NYC (I don’t know if I could be THAT close to my mom), Boston, Baltimore, DC. It’s sad because I do love my job, but I know I can find a job with better money AND be closer to my best friends. I do worry about what a move and change of routine would do to my health and fitness.

I had so much on my mind today that my run was only so-so. Did 5 miles on the treadmill and worked legs with my trainer tonight. Tomorrow I’m heading off to Nashville for my race weekend and I will try not to overly stress about money.

WIW Hotel Edition

So last night/today I’m in Birmingham and my coworkers and I went to dinner and my job was footing the bill. We went to an interesting grill/steak house. I had a yummy salad and one glass of wine and a baked potato…eeek. It could have been worse, but it could have been better too. However money’s been tight lately and it was nice to splurge since I wasn’t paying.

So according to the scale I’m up a poundish which is fine (I also didn’t drop the kids off at the pool this morning – I literally laughed outloud typing that, I spent a good minute trying to figure out how to write that and then Jessica Simpson circa being on newlyweds saying that came to mind).

I plan on doing measurements tonight when I get home (post 5 mile run) which I’m really looking forward to. I’m gonna weigh myself on friday for a more accurate pre-race weight and hopefully I’ll be in the 195/4 range.

This week: 196.8
Last week: 195.something I can’t see it on my BB.